Potentiality
[pəʊtenʃɪ'ælɪtɪ] or [pə,tɛnʃɪ'æləti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
坎蒂丝手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Possibility.
桃乐茜編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- As an instrument, in these things, he was marvellous, she had never seen any man with his potentiality. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We may mean by potentiality a merely dormant or quiescent state--a capacity to become something different under external influences. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But we also mean by capacity an ability, a power; and by potentiality potency, force. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Gradually it drew away all his potentiality, it bled him into the dark, it weaned him of life and drew him away into the darkness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It is noteworthy that the terms capacity and potentiality have a double meaning, one sense being negative, the other positive. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It also has vast potentialities for good and evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It had vast potentialities for good and evil--all it wanted was harnessing and directing. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
錄入:诺兰